diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl/template b/srcpkgs/perl/template
index c0c246a4051..2f947fd81fa 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/perl/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl/template
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ short_desc="Practical Extraction and Report Language"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.perl.org"
 license="GPL-2"
-distfiles="http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-${version}.tar.bz2"
+#distfiles="http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-${version}.tar.bz2"
+distfiles="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/perl/perl-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=bb7bc735e6813b177dcfccd480defcde7eddefa173b5967eac11babd1bfa98e8
 
 # Before updating this package to a new major version, run ${FILESDIR}/provides.pl